Lose 5 Pounds A Month- May 2010 Challenge

Hi Everyone, I'm in again!!! last month I managed to lose 7 pounds with the help and motivation of you all



Starting Weight with MFP on 1/12/10........164.5

Weight on 5/1/10............................................138

Goal Weight for end of May..........................133

Final Goal Weight...........................................126


Good Luck to you all for May

I would like to become a part of the challenge and be held accountable .I thank you for the challenge I believe this will motivate me and others. :flowerforyou:

Count me in.. CW: 203
GW: 160

5/1/10 162.2

goal 157 by 5//27 my big five oh birthday.


So just a quick post. I just had a wonderful first anniversary dinner with my husband and even with splurging for our anniversary I only came in 26 calories over for the day. We had a cocktail, wine, crab and artichoke dip , a salad, wonderful sour dough bread and seared ahi. we even had vanilla icecream on the house for our anniversary. It was wonderful and I didn't feel guilty :blushing: at all. It was a wonderful meal. I hope you all have a great evening.

good luck everyone.

RJ - What a wonderful Anniversary Dinner - Congratulations on your anniversary. And congratulations again on staying so close to your goal!

BethinAgain - you are a continual inspiration.

Terri - again, thanks for keeping us going on this thread/challenge.

Congratulations to everyone who lost weight last month! Here's to another successful month.

As I just posted in the April thread, I didn't meet the 5 pound goal for last month, but I am down 3 pounds. I am going to consider that a win - at least the scale is going down in the right direction. Since I've pretty much always exercised (except during periods of extreme duress/time requirements or when very ill and forbidden to exercise), exercise doesn't seem to help me lose too much.

After finally reading the NYTimes article from the weekend before last where they discussed recent research findings that exercise doesn't help women lose weight (it does men) but helps us keep it off, I am going to greatly reduce my weekly calorie intake but relax the exercise a little - will still walk approximately 3 miles / 50 minutes per day and will do my daily morning vinyasa yoga routine + a fast (20 minute) strength routine 3x per week but am not going to push it beyond that.

I won't be able to do that anyway. I will need the group's support this month - we have two major federal grants due + 2 new staff coming on board + have a new web client and one for whom I need to finish a site (waiting for her to get me the final content). And I have to go to AZ for my mother's 85th birthday (she still jogs!). Which means 14 - 15 hour workdays, 7 days a week for the next 3 weeks. My MO during such periods is to gain a couple of pounds, but I am determined to lose and to at least break the 190 pound mark.

So wish me luck and thanks to all of you ahead of time for the support!

Let's do it! :bigsmile:

~ Shivaun

CW:144
May Goal: 139

The Plan: Not over snacking at night. This is really my biggest issue as most of you know. I will eat my healthy meals and then when the late night snacking bug hits me I will fold laundry to keep my hands busy. If that isn't working well I will go to sleep early. On the 4 days that I have celebrations this month I will enjoy my normal healthy meals but also indulge in a slice of cake or whatever treat is around tempting me the most. I am typically really strong at the event but then break after the kids go to bed. Last night was a perfect example. I went to my guys mom's house for dinner, she made yummy Tri Tip and a cheesy noodle side dish. I brought some asparagus in my purse just in case and was so glad I did. I told her that I had so much at home that I brought some to share (true I do have a lot, but no really why I brought it :devil: ) so I made them quickly and filled half my plate with salad, loaded up on asparagus, and had only two small slices of meat, I am guessing about 6 oz. Passed on the yummy smelling cheesy gooy goodness and passed on the cake and ice cream for dessert (well I did have a small bite of my son's who had a special dairy free gluten free cake slice). But as we went to leave she gave us a box of cinnamon grahams she said she got for the kids to try. Well once I got home and got the kids to bed I had like 7 cinnamon grahams and then looked at the calories. :mad: 120 for two? REALLY? TWO? So I went over by 640 calories. I could have just had a slice of cake and been done with it! I have made this mistake before. Many times before. I am not going to say I wont do it again. I the plan it to TRY to just eat the darn thing I want so I don't do this again! And if I do it again, I'll try again next time.

Sorry for the long post. Happy Monday!

P.P.S., Jenn, here's to a great plan! :drinker: I love it!

I'm in guys!! I was doing really well after Christmas, but got sick, so lost all my fitness and gained some weight.. I'm going to log everything, but I'm going by Weight Watchers system as I'm finding it good at making me be exact about what I'm eating (I tend to guess when I use MFP). I'm still going to log MFP to make sure what I'm eating is balanced.

My plan is to get back out exercising, and try to start couch to 5 K in the next week.

CW is 162.4

My goal is for 5lbs this month, and an decrease in % body fat, increase in muscle mass.

My overall goal is about 15 lbs, and I hope to manage that by 6th July as I'm going on a sun holiday!

Any tips welcomed- particularly on how you get enough iron, I don't really enjoy meat, eat plenty of vegetables but stuggle to get enough iron..

I am in!!!

Any tips welcomed- particularly on how you get enough iron, I don't really enjoy meat, eat plenty of vegetables but stuggle to get enough iron..

I was vegetarian for awhile but added meat back into my diet when I started a heavy lifting program (needed 30% of my calories to come from protein.) I still do not eat much meat. The things vegetarians have to worry about are iron and b12. My multivitamin had iron, and I took a b12 supplement. I don't know how much/little meat you eat but you may need to take a b12 supplement as well.

Cool, thanks, I take a multi-vitamin with Iron. But I only really eat chicken, minced beef, and fish,, I don't really enjoy anything else other than the really bad stuff like sausages and bacon (rashers), so I'm trying to stay away from them. I make sure I have a breakfast cereal in the morning, as my doctor recommended that, but without the supplement, I'm only getting about 30% of my RDA of iron if I'm lucky,, I know that's not good!!

Good morning everyone. It's a beautiful morning here too. All my flowers are blooming and I need to get outside and do some yardwork. I've got peonies, irises and 4 different kinds of roses blooming. I love the scents!
I ended up getting kinda sick yesterday (stomach) and almost had to come home from work but I made it through. Still feeling yucky this morning and haven't eaten anything yet. The scale says I'm down another pound today probably because of the bathroom issues yesterday. It'll be nice if it STAYS a pound down!

I'm not going to eat much today. I just don't think I should force it. I'm not going to change my weigh in weight though. I do that on Mondays only. Maybe I'll feel like eating by supper time.

Enjoy your day!

Morning all,
Well this "anti-gym" lady joined a gym. Hubby is looking forward to a knee replacement in Aug. and his doc wanted him to start physical therapy way before surgery then send him to rehab. for a couple of weeks, and then back to more physical therapy. So we chose a gym near by that had a physical theraphy bus. in house. How convienent.
Well, if I take him down and have to stay I might as well do something while there. I guess I could read. Anyway we got a couple membership. I went to my first spin class last night. I'm still looking to new exercises other than just walking the mile section. Well, let me tell you, this spin class kicked my butt. :noway:
Plan to go back next Monday... can't make it to earlier classes. Maybe this will help me to become somewhat of a runner. My daughter would like me to run the City of Hope 5k with her in Oct. We usually walk it.
This weekend is the Komen Race for the Cure. I'll be walking for my mom and cousin. :drinker:
Jacque

Exercise is good for you;

NEVER USE IT TO PUNISH YOURSELF FOR EATING TOO MUCH OR EARN THE RIGHT TO EAT MORE!




EATING SHOULD NOT BE USE FOR REWARD FOR EXERCISING!

EAT ONLY TO SATISFY HUNGER!

Count me in!!!

Robin, we talked some last week about how we both weigh a bit more on Mondays. Well, as I told you I would, I passed up getting on the scale this time yesterday and got on today instead. I was shocked but happy to see that you were so right! I weighed a bit less than 1/2 a lb lower than I did at my Friday weigh in! Thanks for the great advise to keep off on Mondays! I feel so great right now.:bigsmile:

Jenn,

Yay!. I just think that Monday shows my change in water drinking and since of routine that I follow the rest of the week that is missing on the weekends. Monday depresses me so Tuesday is good. For me sometimes it won't return to normal until Wed or even Thurs but I always know it will. Good job. I am a pound down from Friday so I can't wait to see what the rest of the week will bring.